Frozen pregnancy is the cessation of development and the subsequent death of the fetus in the womb of the mother. Often this happens in the early stages of pregnancy, but sometimes there is a dead pregnancy in later terms.
After establishing an accurate diagnosis, a woman is shown an urgent operation or stimulation of labor. In any way, it is necessary to extract the baby until the stage of decomposition of the fetus has come, which can lead to intoxication of the woman's body, sepsis and peritonitis.
What causes a dead pregnancy?
The cause of frozen pregnancy in the third trimester can be a genetic malfunction in the body of both women and fetuses, various pathologies of fetal development, incompatible with life, kidney disease and the cardiovascular system of women, thrombosis of the umbilical cord and placenta, infectious diseases, the age of a woman of 40 years and older. In the risk zone there are "mummies" who continue to smoke and drink alcohol during pregnancy.
How to recognize a dead pregnancy?
A long absence of fetal movements should be guarded. Perhaps he sleeps a lot, but still you must feel a few times a day. In addition, with a pregnancy late in pregnancy, brown discharge from the vagina, pain in the lower abdomen, similar to contractions, rise in body temperature and deterioration of well-being. If to all this you notice that the breast has ceased to be painful and filled and other signs of pregnancy have disappeared, this indicates the need to urgently take action.
Actions of a doctor with a stiffened pregnancy
First of all, the doctor must make an accurate diagnosis. To do this, he will send a woman to an ultrasound to determine whether the fetus has a heartbeat. An additional study is the test for hCG - lowering its level confirms fears. When gynecological examination is usually found inconsistency of the size of the uterus
If the doctor confirms the frozen fetus, the pregnancy is subject to immediate termination. That is, as such, there is no pregnancy, and a woman should simply be saved. In later terms, instead of curettage, an artificial challenge to labor is assigned. Sometimes the frozen pregnancy ends in a spontaneous miscarriage.
In most cases fetal fading occurs due to infection of a woman. Therefore, in order to avoid such an extremely unpleasant and painful situation, it is necessary to minimize all risks even at the stage of pregnancy planning and during pregnancy itself.